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OSH End of Life Care in Nephrology : From Advanced Disease to Bereavement

Edwina Brown, E. Joanna Chambers, Celia Eggeling

Abstract

End of Life Care in Nephrology provides practical guidance on all aspects of this difficult field: the clinical state of dying renal patients, how to control their symptoms, and how to help patients and their medical teams discuss difficult issues such as dialysis withdrawal and death.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Sep 2007
Print ISBN-13:
9780199211050
Published to Oxford Medicine:
Oct 2011
DOI:
10.1093/med/9780199211050.001.0001

Authors

Edwina Brown, author
Consultant Nephrologist, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

E. Joanna Chambers, author
Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

Celia Eggeling, author
Lead for Psychosocial Care, S.W.Thames Renal and Transplantation, St. Helier Hospital, Carshalton, UK


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